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I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.

During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.

I used to think that the worst form of discrimination for women was being hit on or hearing something disparaging. What's even more challenging for young women is a very senior male who will take an interest in you, who see themselves as father figures or mentors.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

I am a feminist. Women are discriminated against in so many ways, and they make up half the population.